Meaning: The elders in a community and the society itself should support a good cause not a bad one. Therefore, if you need their support, you should do good things that they will identify with and support.

One head (or an individual) does not hold council.

Meaning: It is better for two or more people to deliberate on a subject matter rather allowing only one person to decide on an issue.

Meaning: Children should do things that pertain to children and avoid those that concern the adults.

It is because of “blow the dust off my eyes” that two antelopes walk together.

Meaning: it is good to do things in group rather than trying to do it all alone.

Nobody knows the beginning of a great man.

Meaning: You cannot predict the beginning of greatness because they always look awkward and frustrating; therefore, it is not good to laugh at people or judge them based on their current status. Tomorrow, the great work they started may transform their life into greatness.

When one father dies, another father lives

Meaning: In some societies, even in the absence of the biological parents of a child, the elders around will take care of him or her.

Meaning: All fingers are not the same height; some are longer than the others. Same in the realm of human; we are not all the same. Some are rich some are poor. Some are dark, some are light. Some are gentle and some are harsh.

FUNNY AFRICAN PROVERBS

1. “To get lost is to learn the way”

2. “By the time the fool has learned the game, the players have dispersed.”

3. “You do not teach the paths of the forest to an old gorilla.”

4. “Ears that do not listen to advice, accompany the head when it is chopped off.”

5. “A fight between grasshoppers is a joy to the crow.”

6. “An army of sheep led by a lion can defeat an army of lions led by a sheep.”

7. “Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.”

8. “He who thinks he is leading and has no one following him is only taking a walk.”

9. “Where a woman rules, streams run uphill.”

10. “Wealth diminishes with usage; learning increases with use.”

11. “If the cockroach wants to rule over the chicken, then it must hire the fox as a body-guard.”

12. “Cross the river in a crowd and the crocodile won’t eat you.”

13. “A single bracelet does not jingle.”

14. “One who plants grapes by the road side, and one who marries a pretty woman, share the same problem.”

15. “Money can’t talk, yet it can make lies look true.”

16. “A united family eats from the same plate.”

17. “Brothers love each other when they are equally rich.”

18. “There is no fool who is disowned by his family.”

19. “Marriage is like a groundnut; you have to crack it to see what is inside.”

20. “Despite the beauty of the moon, sun and the stars, the sky also has a threatening thunder and striking lightening.”

21. “The friends of our friends are our friends.”

22. “The old woman looks after the child to grow its teeth and the young one in turn looks after the old woman when she loses her teeth.”

23. “A close friend can become a close enemy.”

24. ”Make some money but don’t let money make you.”

25. “The wealth which enslaves the owner isn’t wealth.”

26. “Dogs do not actually prefer bones to meat; it is just that no one ever gives them meat.”

27. “You should not hoard your money and die of hunger.”

28. “A beautiful thing is never perfect.”

29. “Why they like an ugly person takes long for a beautiful person to know”

30. “Coffee and love taste best when hot.”

31. “Never marry a woman who has bigger feet than you.”

32. “The food that is in the mouth is not yet in the belly.”

33. “Don’t take another mouthful before you have swallowed what is in your mouth.”